Blowing up medieval gunpowder recipes (IMAGE)

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Blowing up medieval gunpowder recipes

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Researchers tested medieval gunpowder recipes in this replica of an early 15th-century stone-throwing cannon.

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Adapted from ACS Omega 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c03380

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